realpython/python-guide
Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.
29.9k stars · 5.9k forks · Batchfile
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 2 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 2
- Human commits, 365 days
- 11
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Jul 27, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 27, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 2
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 4 days
Responsiveness: of 3 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 11 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 370
Top committers
- mpoulin: 55% of commits
- dhruvatr: 27% of commits
- martymcenroe: 18% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Nov 19, 2013 to Nov 20, 2013: about 42 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 25, 2013 to Nov 26, 2013: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 10, 2014 to Mar 11, 2014: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 10, 2014 to May 12, 2014: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 10, 2019 to Feb 11, 2019: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 25, 2019 to Apr 26, 2019: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 9, 2020 to Feb 12, 2020: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 28, 2020 to Feb 28, 2020: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 1 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: realpython/python-guide
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
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